Pros

Pro

Free unlimited private repositories for small teams

Bitbucket offers unlimited private repositories for free, as long as the number of members in a team is not larger than 5. In other words, it does not charge for each number of private repository, instead it charges by the number of team members.

Pro

Native application for both Mac and Windows

Atlassian, the company behind BitBucket is also behind SourceTree, a free application for Windows and Mac wich works as a client for both Git and Mercurial and can be connected to BitBucket and/or other code hosting services.

Pro

Multiple authentication methods

Pro

JIRA integration

JIRA, the widely used project and issue tracker is developed by Atlassian, the same team that's behind BitBucket.

When the two are integrated, JIRA automatically updates issues when a new commit is made in the BitBucket repo.

Pro

Allows importing existing repositories

BitBucket has a feature which allows users to import an existing repository that has been hosted elsewhere.

The process is very simple, either a service is selected from a dropdown menu and then a repo can be chosen and the URL for a repository can be added in the specified field. Once that's done, the repository is now uploade into BitBucket and can be edited, forked and compared to other repos hosted there.

Pro

Supports hosting static websites

Pro

Atlassian offers student licenses for both students and educators for Atlassian products that will be used in a classroom setting for education. This includes BitBucket, which means that students and teachers can have unlimited private repositories with and unlimited number of contributors.

Pro

Backed by a trustable company that has proved it's worth

BitBucket is developed and maintained by Atlassian, which is not an unknown venture, especially for developers. Atlassian has a great number of other products used by million of users worldwide, including JIRA, HipChat, Confluence and Stash.

Pro

Mercurial support

Pro

Easy Trello integration

You can link BitBucket with your Trello board easily.

Pro

Self-hosted

Pro

Very light

Gogs is very light and has very low minimal requirements.

Pro

Excellent performance and efficiency

The fact that it's written in Go means that it has excellent performance even with little resources (less RAM for example).

Pro

Simple installation

The installation process is very simple, just a binary file that needs to be run on the directory where the user wants to install Gogs

Pro

Open Source

Distributed under the MIT license.

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Cross-platform compatibility

Gogs is written in Go, this means that Gogs can be run anywhere that Go can compile. Be it Linux, Windows or OSX.

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Cons

Con

Private repositories are free for only 5 users

Private repositories are free for teams with 5 members or less. If a team is larger, then BitBucket charges for each additional team member.

Con

Proprietary

Con

Not as stable as github

Users have experienced several half a day downtimes, almost every month. True, github is down once in a while, but when GitHub is down complaints breaks loose on Twitter, TechCrunch, and other major media outlets. For the past 5 years github has been down only three times, and two of these times they were attacked by major adversaries.

Con

Requires registration of a "universal atlassian account"

Not a big con for some, but annoying to others.

Con

Only one maintainer

The project is driven by only one maintainer. The development will stop if he for some reason stops supporting the project.

Con

Can not make pull requests between branches of forked repositories

Con

No third party provider support

Con

Can't filter by a user to see all their commits in one place

I want to see a single user's entire history, but clicking a user's name only shows all users' history, not just the one I clicked.

Con

Supports only git

Gogs supports only the Git management system.

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